as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
this newest ocean liner is a true titan of the sea
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Recent Examples of titan
Awesome impressionism Mary Cassatt emerged as a titan of the art world at a time when woman were largely relegated to amateur status.
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
The post-election dynamic is reminiscent of a famous gathering of tech titans at Trump Tower in December 2016, a month after Trump’s first upset win in a presidential race, when some of the same executives braced themselves for unpredictable policy shifts.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
Music titan Quincy Jones,legendary producer of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' dies at 91
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—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan who worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, is dead at 91.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 24 Oct. 2024
The post-election dynamic is reminiscent of a famous gathering of tech titans at Trump Tower in December 2016, a month after Trump’s first upset win in a presidential race, when some of the same executives braced themselves for unpredictable policy shifts.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
Music titan Quincy Jones,legendary producer of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' dies at 91
Need a break?
—Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan who worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, is dead at 91.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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The coffee giant hopes to reclaim its coffeehouse crown by focusing on speed, service, and operational efficiency.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
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Then there was Prime Video, the streaming arm of the tech giant Amazon, which produced a ten-hour pop-up election-cast extravaganza pitched as a more streamlined alternative to its rivals and anchored by NBC émigré Brian Williams.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Getting to the cream Several animals that live in groups learn from one another, including elephants, whales, and some primates.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Sightings might include sea-life such as whales and dolphins, with an uptick in whale sighting now that whale migration season has begun in early November.Margaux Lushing, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Frankly, this is a hard argument to dispute, but the guy is ultimately the movie’s monster, so his ideology has to be sufficiently challenged by the time the credits roll.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Hung was also instrumental in creating the jiangshi genre of horror kung fu in the 1980s, inspired by his childhood love of ghosts and monsters.Gavin J Blair, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
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The college essay is going the way of the dinosaurs as more teachers give up on the ability to tell whether their students are writing their papers themselves.Nir Eisikovits, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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The devastation that wiped out the dinosaurs created ideal conditions for various fungi to thrive, and ants actually began to cultivate fungi.Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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The joke of Strings’s mammoth, self-sabotaging ego, however, can only be sustained for so long, even by very appealing actors.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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The event, according to research, may have triggered a 1000-year-long ice age, wiping out many large animals, including mammoths, and dramatically marking the growth of human civilization.Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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But the security advisory published on Nov. 01 by authentication colossus Okta did just that, and then some.Davey Winder, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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From a realist perspective, the prospect of China as an economic colossus was a nightmare.John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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“Titan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titan. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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